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Water fluoridation linked to ADHD, obesity and depression

Water fluoridation linked to ADHD, obesity and depression

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

by: David Gutierrez, staff writer

(NaturalNews) Water fluoridation
has been linked with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in
a new study conducted by researchers from York University in Toronto,
and published in the journal Environmental Health.

Although
prior studies have suggested that there might be a connection between
fluoride and hyperactivity, the new study is the first to look at the
relationship between ADHD and water fluoridation in particular.

"Given
the number of children in the U.S. exposed to fluoridation, it is
important to follow this up," said Thomas Zoeller of UMass-Amherst, who
was not involved in the study.

The study used fluoridation data
from 1992. Since then, the proportion of the U.S. population drinking
fluoridated water has increased from 56 to 67 percent. During that same
time, the proportion of children diagnosed with ADHD has increased from 7
to 11 percent.

'Huge' effect

The researchers compared
ADHD rates between all 50 U.S. states, then compared these with those
states' prevalence of artificial water fluoridation.

"States in
which a greater proportion of people received artificially-fluoridated
water in 1992 tended to have a greater proportion of children and
adolescents who received ADHD diagnoses [in later years], after
controlling for socioeconomic status," researcher Ashley Malin said.

It was important to control for socioeconomic status, because poor children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD.

Delaware
and Iowa are both examples of states with low poverty rates that had
higher-than-expected rates of ADHD (14 percent of children between the
ages of 4 and 17). Both states have heavily fluoridated water systems.

Based
on the study data, the researchers constructed a model that predicted
that even after controlling for socioeconomic status, every 1 percent of
the U.S. population that drank fluoridated water in 1992 was associated
with an extra 67,000 cases of ADHD by 2003, and an extra 131,000 cases
by 2011.

"The numbers of extra cases associated with a one
percent increase in the 1992 artificial fluoridation [figures] are
huge," said William Hirzy, an American University researcher and vocal
fluoridation opponent who was once a risk assessment scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Harvard
epidemiologist Philippe Grandjean expressed a similar sentiment. "The
results are plausible, and indeed meaningful," he said, noting that the
study joins a body of recent research suggesting that scientists should
"reconsider the need to add fluoride to drinking water at current
levels."

Fluoride is a neurotoxin

It's no surprise that fluoride could be a cause of ADHD; a 2014 Lancet study by Grandjean and Philip Landrigan concluded that fluoride is a developmental neurotoxin.

"Fluoride
appears to fit in with a pattern of other trace elements such as lead,
methylmercury, arsenic, cadmium and manganese—adverse effects of these
have been documented over time at exposures previously thought to be
'low' and 'safe,'" said pediatrician and researcher Caroline Martinez of
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

Studies have linked higher
exposure to fluoride with lower IQs in children, and have also suggested
that water fluoridation may increase the rate at which lead leaches
from pipes and into drinking water.

A large body of evidence
also suggests that fluoride may act as an endocrine disruptor,
including causing changes to the function of the thyroid gland. Because
the thyroid gland plays an important role in brain development, this may
produce neurological problems, including ADHD.

A February 2015 study conducted by researchers from the University of Kent, found that high levels of water fluoridation
are also associated with thyroid dysfunction. The researchers, who
looked at data from 98 percent of English general practitioners, found
that areas with the greatest fluoridation had 30 percent higher rates of
underactive thyroid. This can produce symptoms such as weight gain,
depression and fatigue.

1 comment:

Fluoride is a poison. Fluoride was poison yesterday. Fluoride is poison today. Fluoride will be poison tomorrow. The Board of Health has told us fluoride is safe and effective but is this true? Study after study shows the harm water fluoridation is doing to the human body yet where are the studies showing its benefits? As we get sicker and sicker remember it is not the shouts of your enemies that stay in your mind but the silence of our friends. When in doubt get it out.